How to kick off agile projects Kevin Pedersen @kevinpedersen

Context is important Consultancy company Clients agile maturity makes a big impact What works for one might not work for another Don’t always follow the same steps for every project Disclaimer alert Tried impact mapping

Simon Sinek’s golden circle

Product vision – the reason why you are doing the project.

First persona mentioned is usually the Executive, which might hint that there is a decision maker who is pulling strings further up. Try to get them to Sprint Reviews for better feedback.

CIO didn’t like this, said budget is a car they expect a car chassis

Incremental was labelled bad Being both iterative and incremental is best

Perfect plan doesn’t exist Perfect plan doesn’t exist. Its better to start with an imperfect plan than to not start at all.

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Play Games to split up the session Again depends on agile maturity or the seriousness of the client Games are great at teaching agile concepts very quickly Freshens up the workshop and gets people moving A game is as good as a break A great game I always try to fit in is the Coin Game

Iteration 0 Let the architects start architecting Let the UX-ers produce some mockups Let the designers get a feel for how it will look Let the developers have a think about the unknowns Let the Scrum Master train the Product Owner Then re-look at the Storymap and create the Backlog

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